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Ejstories » Contemporary Fiction
6M ago
Arguably, my most popular blog post ever is my absolute evisceration of Zodiac Academy. I hated it. A lot. I thought it was because I hated the tropes—but turns out I just hated how the tropes are done in those fateful first few books. Now I've found a series that does a lot of the same stuff Zodiac Academy does, just...better ..read more
Ejstories » Contemporary Fiction
6M ago
I CANNOT BELIEVE THE CLIFFHANGER THIS BOOK ENDED ON ..read more
Ejstories » Contemporary Fiction
6M ago
An exciting month of reading despite the mediocre ratings. And so many dragons ..read more
Ejstories » Contemporary Fiction
6M ago
For my Storygraph reading goal this year, I went even more conservative than I was last year. And after a slump of zero books finished in March, I am now 15 books ahead of my goal. Is this partly due to not-so-great romance novels? Sure. But it's equally thanks to great series like Temeraire and, now, The Stormlight Archive ..read more
Ejstories » Contemporary Fiction
6M ago
What would you put in your Fantasy Hall of Fame—for Middle Grade, Young Adult, and Adult? Guest writer Isabella Brotchie gives her takes ..read more
Ejstories » Contemporary Fiction
6M ago
A couple big-brain books and a couple no-brain books. On balance, I'd say I used all the brain cells I had to spare this month ..read more
Ejstories » Contemporary Fiction
6M ago
A perfect fantasy book, in the archetypal sense: perfectly plotted, familiar yet creative. It reminded me why I fell in love with reading in the first place. Here's why ..read more
Ejstories » Contemporary Fiction
6M ago
Somehow, the sequel lived up to the unimaginable standard of its dark academia predecessor ..read more
Ejstories » Contemporary Fiction
6M ago
I CANNOT BELIEVE THE CLIFFHANGER THIS BOOK ENDED ON ..read more
Ejstories » Contemporary Fiction
6M ago
Babel is the boldest indictment of the evils of English academia I've read to date. That's what I was waiting for, though, through The Secret History, If We Were Villains, The Atlas Six, and even Legendborn: violence ..read more